It was reported that the patient was in the icu and that assistance was requested by the icu physician to confirm the vns was working correctly.Information was later received that the patient had aspirated, had pneumonia, had septic shock, and a bradycardia episode.The physician was unfamiliar with the vns device, he could not provide an assessment on the relationship of the events to the device.Follow up with the icu physician determined that the physician decided to have the output currents set to 0ma during the hospitalization to monitor the patient.System diagnostics were also performed with all results reported to be within normal limits.
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